The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1887-01-05
CURIOSITIES.


been erected in France.
wEsrcHEsrER COUNTY IN. " lawyers bill for
$500 was cut down by the court to s4jO.
A $4,000 license fee" on family wine-roomsn
is demanded by Georgia temperance agltators.
IN Pullman car that arrived in San Bernard
inc, Cal, the other day, there were seventeen
babies
CALIFORNIA claims the largest squash of the
season. II was raised at Lompoe, and weighs 25l
pounds.
IT is reported that last year more than 100000
emigrants went to the Argentine Republic mos :
of them from Italy.
A RESIDENT of Savannah exhibits 12l large swee.
potatoes which were grown on a single vine. They
completely filed barrel.
THERE is "whistling well" on a farm in Glare
County, Mich. 1t is $50 feet deep, and whistles
loudest Just before storm.
A WOMAN handed a valise and a letter to a tele
graph operator at Grand Fork, D. T., and told
him to send them over the wires.
MAJOR J. A. SMITH, United States Army, recon-
mends the removal OF "Pull-and- be Damned
Point" Portsmouth, n. H, harbor
DURING the year 1856 American mills have pro-
duced 200 tons of steel rails, valued at SiO-
THE average falary Of school-teachers in st
Louis is s66s.7O. Only twenty-six receive $1,000.
OF ,1O1 teachers, 1O4 receive less than $500 per
year.
MORE than fifty colored men hold positions as
clerks in the executive departments at Washing
ton. Their salaries range from 81 900 to 1850 per
annum.
TEE largest tree in California is in Tulare
md lie faat hfuh 4No
feet in circumference 1t is called "The Father
OF the Forest"
DURING the past year 5000 articles have &C
eumulated in the dead letter Office. These in
cluded all sorts of necessares from Easter eggs to
seersucker suits.
THE petrihed wood introduced as tigers eye,
and used as watch seals, has sunk to the grade Of
umbrella handles, and a column of it surmounted
by a bali is a fashionable design in London.
REED, the spruce gum man, of Byron, Me-, en-
ploys twenty men to gather gum for him. He has
Just filed an order for ton and half for Port
land firm. He expects to get out about ten tons
this winter.
FOND DU LAC, Wis, hen has just Matched out
brood of eighteen chickens. The temperature
was 15' below zero on two days toward the end of
the period of incubation and the hen hsd but
little shelter.
MRS. srANDIPoRD. of Smelling, Cal, buried
$500 in gold in the cellar of her house for safe
keeping Her seven.year.old boy found the hoard,
and distributed 500 Of it among his playmates be-
fore he was found out.
A FLORIDA hotel proudly announces that it has
ga bevy of beauties from the North as walters"
The place at which the hotel is located bears the
euphonious name, II may be stated in this con-
nection, of Kissimmee
THE annual accounts are coming from Dakota
Of the snow balls some the size of apples, others
as large as peek measures that cover the prairies
there. These balls are rolled by the wind, and
there are thousands of them.
A CANADIAN lady who was undergoing exami-
nation for teachers certifctte was asked: "Who
surrendered, and to whom, at the battle of Sc
dam" She answered, positively: General Wash
ington to the Duke of Wellington"
ALTHOUGH attempts TO plant American oysters
in the Baltic Sea have hitherto resulted in failure,
a sehleswig merchant named Feddersen has sub
merged twenty-five tons of breeding oysters in
favorable ground in Schlei Fiord.
TIE telephone is put to a new aud convenient
use in Brussels. Gentlemen who wish to rise
early, but don't like to, can have row of little
bells along the edge OF their beds which ring
viciously until they rise and stop the disturbance.
WHILE inspecting the BinghamtOn tOboggan
slide as it was being wet down the other dav, a
prominent citizen OF the place went too near the
edt,, lost his balance and slid down the les feet
OF wet and very slippery ice at tremendous rate
of speed.
JOE DEMosEs fifteen years old. and black.
went down to the landing at Jefiersonvillc, Ind.
to see steamboat go out AS he stood looking